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EC’s Side Blog or whatever this is… Hi this is just my shitbin where I just post whatever.

[chonkchu]

Sooo basically…

I don’t often go on here but if I do, this blog can range to:

Fandom discussions as well as opinions and criticism (especially on things I like).

Random thoughts

Edits

Shitposts

Sometimes character ideas or the rare sketches (WIPs)

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[chonkchu]

AI is so much worse and more terrifying the longer you think about it. If people accuse you that your art is AI generated and you show them a speed paint video for proof that it’s not, that will eventually not work because people will eventually literally program an AI to timelapse itself with its creation. Even if you recorded yourself creating something traditional, some asswipe can create a prompt just to prove your point is false.

[chonkchu]

I will not lie, I think Gen 4 had the best execution of pokémon designs imo.

Like a lot of the examples I chose kinda look edgy sure, but it was a new feeling of pokémon that actually worked. They really felt more like elemental creatures and they executed it so perfectly without trying so hard to feel like a revamp of Gen 1. It conveyed their typings and power decently. It just really felt like what pokémon was meant to be.

Like literally just look at the whole chart of ‘mons here. So many of them were badass! Toxicroak, Weavile, Spiritomb, Gliscor, Hippowdon, Gastrodon and more to speak. Actually peak pokémon.

[chonkchu]

Why tf did I think Abominable was directed by Chris Sanders

[longsufferingcritic]

There's something so beautiful about stories where a child feels estranged from their family and/or society for being different, meets an intelligent nonhuman creature who feels the same, they bond and rely on each other and accept each other just the way they are, so both of their lives become far more fulfilling and joyous than if they had been "normal", which they now will never wish for because their differences are what brought them together and they will never ever regret meeting their best friend 💖💖💖

[longsufferingcritic]

Feel free to add on more examples if I missed any!

[chonkchu]

There was no need to guess what their shinies would look like before. It was obvious from the start with what they were going to do 😭

Anyway…

Let’s talk about them from a Competitive Standpoint!

Here’s their stats that have been uploaded on Bulbapedia:

Even though their BST is balanced, it’s pretty obvious with what they were trying to go for here with X being more Raichu and Y being more Pikachu…

They really don’t like him huh?

Raichu Y is essentially has the more “ideal” stats expected for a Mega Raichu as most people only run special sets with it. It is the next Manectric with the doggo at least having more points to outspeed it. With access to Nasty Plot (if it can pull it off) and a wider access to special moves, this thing is potentially destructive and could possibly see itself above the OU tier. It can shootout powerful Volt Switches and will paralyze your whole team if you are not careful with Nuzzle.

When its ability is released which could very well be Transistor judging by its Pokédex, or Galvanize to turn Hyper Beam into a special, OP equivalent of Volt Tackle but my guess is as good as yours.

X however got the bad end of the stick and I’m not exaggerating it. Its stats makes no sense with its movepool. It keeps the same speed? Really? No Fighting-Type to complement its movepool that has over 5 moves it could learn; many being physical btw and not to mention “ooh it punches with its fists” thing? Its defences are nothing short of amazing. Manectric can do a better job at being bulky as it gets Intimidate, better base HP and is way faster to Volt-Switch tf out of there and that itself will do some good damage—

“But wait! This thing is probably gonna get Levitate!”

Okay so…? We have Eelektross who is famously known for that. Chances are it’s Mega will MOST LIKELY retain that for consistency, but it actually gets Giga Drain and Drain Punch for recovery and Coil to power up and hone its defence. That thing is unpredictable with its wide movepool, even more so now a few options that you can work with. The Mega even has a naturally higher attack stat than Raichu X with the only thing that sets it apart is that X actually has a full-powered, reliable physical STAB move (Volt Tackle) whereas Eelektross has to use the risky Supercell Slam and the inferior Wild Charge or Thunder Punch, but at least the latter is more likely to live longer. Raichu X still has that shitty base 60 HP which is not enough for the recoil damage or to backup its raw defences. Even Eviolite Eelektrik who has 5 points more in HP and same ability can do a better job at what X may be trying to do with the only issue is the risk of the eviolite Knocked Off and a weaker Giga Drain to rely on.

Ampharos who has a similar issue to X is still better as it has 90 HP with overall better defences (105 Def, 110 SDef) to patch it up and has access to Cotton Guard and Lightscreen. He works best as a hard hitter though and a slow pivot with that terrible 45 base speed, yet he can be a beast under Trick Room—Raichu X has limited options to utilize it with besides Volt Switch I guess.

So unless the next generation gives Raichu the option to learn Drain Punch or an actual Electric-healing move, this thing has no reliable recovery other than Rest or Draining Kiss (which we can see the problem here) and then there’s Wish. It doesn’t even get Power-Up Punch or Bulk-Up either so it has no way to increase its attack or any form to boost its defences besides… pft Charge and Defense Curl. Just essentially Volt Tackle until you die and Reversal if you are barely alive or just use that unboosted Thunder Punch and hope for the best... Its only favour for it is having access to 2-3 priority moves now which makes up for its speed, but has no boost or STAB for them. It at least can learn both Reflect and Lightscreen which is good, but far from great and with Wish being it’s only true recovery move… This thing will suffer from 4-moveslot syndrome and is essentially the worse version of the “Support ‘Chu” sets.

EDIT: I guess it learns Drain Punch now via TM through the DLC which means in Champions or the next games, it might learn it. Would’ve been nicer if it was STAB though. If they modify Volt Tackle and make it keep the attack boost and maybe tone down the recoil, Raichu X might be okay.

Unfortunately Levitate is what it will probably get. I don’t think TPC will really give it a hybrid-ability. The only other abilities that it could benefit from that are fitting is Moxie, Thick Fat, maybe Stamina. See ya in PU! 👋

I’ve predicted X wasn’t going to be as great as Y from long before… also keep in mind, Pikachu still has a higher attack stat than it with the light ball. All-in-all, there might be hope but I doubt it. It’s The Raichu of “ The Raichu Megas”. It’s not gonna be anything special.

Btw I whipped this up in my drafts with this one ‘cause I thought I could reference my predictions btw so… as a bonus you can have my reactions to their descriptions when I read on the official website from before.

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I found the website finally explaining their biology or whatever and apparently this website is also here to basically clarify “Who is the most pika-like?”

“Ample subcutaneous fat” What the fuck? Did y’all just fat shame my guy as a Pikachu repaint? 💀💀 Is this thing gonna be bulky and slow as a concept based on people mistakenly thinking Raichu is slower than Pikachu during Raichu’s first ever anime debut (all because Lt. Surge evolved his too fast to learn moves that it could learn in the Pikachu stage) which is essentially the “Mandela Effect” for this guy to casual fans? Also this mf SHOULD be Fighting-type. Talking about fists for punching… YOU BETTER GIVE HIM POWER-UP PUNCH! The only thing I like out of this is the fact that it can fly around with electricity basically so maybe it will be the next Eelektross and gain levitate?

Wdym unleashing its power instantaneously? I feel that dialogue and the general temperament is supposed to represent Ash’s Pikachu specifically (or Cap… never really checked out the new anime) with itbeing strategic and all and being well known for surprise electrocuting everyone in defence, wake-up call and etc. This is where that Gorochu reference in design comes in with the “horn-like fur” but it doesn’t look anything like Gorochu. Its design literally is a result of what happens when you press “B” while evolving Pikachu but the game glitched and then you get this monstrosity.

[chonkchu]

I’m just going through observations as someone who still hasn’t played ZA but I still play showdown and rom hacks but from what I’m seeing…

Yeah, these decisions are getting stupid.

They really gave Garchomp another mega evolution. ANOTHER MEGA EVOLUTION.

And yet I was never a Flygon fan and never understood why everyone liked it so much but you see where I am going with this, right?

Why not HIM!? Megas always felt like they leaned more to helping out some pokémon who needed a boost besides just making popular pokémon be even more cool or overpowered. I think Flygon is a pokémon who absolutely could’ve used one and since Garchomp in this form is made into a special attacker instead; they could’ve done the same with Flygon—preferably without stripping its Ground-type!? Like I never saw Garchomp as a popular pokémon outside of competitive besides being infamously known (Cynthia). A regional variation would be cool, but why another mega form? It wouldn’t be so bad if they gave Flygon one on top of it or Noivern. If anything, fix the original’s speed!

But ngl, seeing the DLC from a glance, I feel like we should’ve gotten more megas. Like I kinda wished they could’ve given Swallot, Noivern hell Arbok one. Ik it feels off but it makes sense logically to give a couple to the two newest generations of pokémon. Baxcallibur wasn’t necessary though.

I think there’s a competitive reason as to why they dropped Garchomp Z’s Ground-typing but I don’t know how to exactly explain it (same reason as to why all general physical Electric-type moves have some kind of drawback). Would’ve been cooler if they went with a jet-engine approach or make it more shark-like but not like another Sharpedo. Water/Dragon instead.

A lot of people give this guy backlash too.

I’m not one of those who cares or likes Lucario that much either, but giving him a Z mega at least makes some sense as it is a fan favourite. I don’t really mind the design either as it always bothered me with its normal form because when I finally played the games all those years, I DID NOT expect this mf to be part Steel. I thought he was Psychic/Fighting from what I saw back when I played SSB: Brawl. This design leans onto that.

So that raises the question…

WHY TF IS IT NOT JUST A SOLID STEEL TYPE!? OR PSYCHIC/STEEL OR PSYCHIC/FIGHTING? I don’t care if it’s essentially another Mega Metagross or Mega Mewtwo X with the type choices. Just make it make sense and make it more different from the other mega! At least Garchomp Z did something “different” with its typing.

Similar issue with Mega Zeraora too who idefk why it of all things got a mega since I swear I only ever see this thing in nsfw stuff if not rarely on showdown. Volcaneon and Hoopa felt more memorable than it, Marshadow was more memorable and it’s a hyped up mythical from the same generation!

But that’s not the thing… and we’ve seen everyone meming about it. We know the issue here.

Why does the rare, forgettable goonbait get a mega that colour shifts into the pokémon who I think—WE ALL think deserves one more? It doesn’t even become Electric/Dark or anything. It’s still a solo Electric-type like most of the electric megas in this generation. Luxray so needs one because he has an interesting stat distribution that could give the possibility of making him more bulkier or maybe making him nimbler. The Dark-type fits its nature and its colour scheme, making Crunch STAB and giving it an immunity to Psychic which is better for switch-ins. Maybe it could learn Sucker Punch too for the new typing which works well for the possible speed reduction. Literally fans were asking for it! I’m kinda glad Zeroroa didn’t get a dual typing after all just for more salt in Luxray’s wound. That would make me wish Marshadow or Phione (yes I said Phione, not Manaphy) had got a mega instead.

And don’t even get me started again on these two pieces of shit

I saw their stats for either form, their shinies… ugh they did my son so dirty. I will make a concluded bitching post about it later.

And one. Last. Time…

The DLC should’ve had a few more megas.

On a positive note of things, probably the best megas from the DLC by far is probably Meowstic, Chimeco, Absol and Darkrai. They cooked for those ones. Especially Darkrai cause he actually looks like nightmare fuel. Staraptor is cool too but I feel it wasn’t that necessary imo.

Honourable mentions outside the DLC: Eelektross, Dragalgae, Malamar, Delphox.

I want to like Starmie cause of Patrick lmao but I really wished there was more to it. Imagine being based off of brittlestars or being a giant, rotating star shuriken-gear thingy? I can’t exactly describe it unless I drew it, but in general, I think the mega we got is the only shitty mega design that gets away with it, just ‘cause.

That and Pyroar. I think he aside from the ‘Chus was done dirty and he was one of the megas I was most excited about because he looked cool, I really wanted to use him and could use a buff! I know its mane is supposed to represent Japanese kanji for “fire” but I’m pretty sure this has been done many times, maybe not directly in a pokémon’s design but just look at the many Fire Blast animations. It just sparks confusion in people that don’t know anything about kanji or even recognize it.

Not that I have anything wrong with that concept but there’s other pokémon that could pull it off better. Pyroar is just not one of them for those reasons. Maybe they could’ve made the mane black and the yellow streaks become a narrower, “orange” firy glow or something so they could still use the idea but add to it like what they did for Absol Z. The change could not only fit really well for Lysandre but because lions with darker manes in the wild are seen as more “powerful” which is a nice nod to that with the mega upgrade and maybe with there typically only being one male Pyroar in a pride.

Speaking of male Pyroar, it’s disappointing (and lazy) that female Mega Pyroar doesn’t even get an obvious gender difference either…

[harveydoodle]

I'm going on a rant about the new mega raichus, if you happened to stumble upon this and enjoy the designs, off with you! Go enjoy your day I have no business with you.

with that said...

I hate these guys sooooooo much they're so bad they look like the laziest poorly photoshopped fakemon I've ever seen they're sooooooo ugly uuuuuugggghhhh

ahem... so I like all the other new megas a lot, so why do I dislike these ones so much?

my main issue here is that they just aren't raichu, these are mega pikachu with haphazard raichu elements slapped on. Why is a mega devolving? Other than pikachu's mascot power of course. Dragonite has a reason with how drastically different it looks from its prevos, raichu is mostly a more mature looking pikachu. Y looses its marking, its strong legs, its ears, its unique tail end and it does'nt look anything like a powered up raichu. X is better, but still its tail and colors revert to its prevo without adding any 'mega raichu' elements.

To me these feel extremely focus grouped, nothing exciting or drastic is happening, the only proportional change is X's slightly bigger hands. Y's silhouette is very messy. One of the biggest things that make these feel lazy to me is the exact same pose is reused from regular raichu. EXACT same pose. No other mega has done this, except maybe mega Aerodactly, and that's a clunky overdesigned mess that's hard to pose in the first place. All others have a different pose to suit the design, even if its subtle like a raised paw and a flipped canvas.

To try to be positive my absolute favourite part of the designs is X's ears, they have that upgraded raichu vibe I want, they're perfect. I also love giving raichu two megas. Y's horns are cool in concepts but poorly executed I think, along with X's double tail. I think I would like these guys as pikachu megas a lot more, then the weird fusion stuff would makes sense and they could stand on their own more, but alas. That's about all I got now, but its good to remember that we know nothing about these guys so my opinion is really open to change

I did a quick drawing of my concepts of a mega raichu, big ass bouncy ball with big ass feet. I dont think its particularly good, definitely on the boring side, but I think a reinterpretation from a proper pokemon artist could make it great, and as it is now I still personally find it a lot better than the official ones.

Bonus little test animation I made, I tried to make this guy the hypothetical Y version

[kiwymelody]

Perpetually fascinated with the reasons behind who learns Fake Out, and how clear it is why That One Cat gets it

[chonkchu]

VERY surprising the Sprigatitto line doesn’t get it though.

[chonkchu]

Jeez I’m kind of glad I write my fanfics between 7-10k words (or well just long) cause Wattpad’s ads are so RELENTLESS. I can’t even read trope books or writer’s prompts off there no more.

[chonkchu]

What if instead of making more eeveelutions for each type, we just give each of them a mega with a type that doesn't exist for them. Like…

Mega Flareon - Fire/Rock

(Magma Inspired. Essentially Hisu Arcanine but better).

Potential Ability: White Smoke or Sturdy

Mega Jolteon - Electric/Steel

(Magnetism related and maybe it’s spiky, missile-fur actually becomes metal spikes.)

Potential Ability: Levitate or Magnet Pull

Mega Vaporeon - Water/Ground

(Muddy/Murky water, adapted for marshes)

Potential Ability: Clear Body or Rain Dish

Mega Espeon - Psychic/Ghost

(Works well with the supernatural theme)

Potential Ability: Magic Guard or Cursed Body

Mega Umbreon - Dark/Poison

(Leaning more towards the idea that is mentioned in Umbreon's Pokédex that it sweats poison, even in the anime and side games)

Potential Ability: Liquid Ooze or Poison Point

Mega Leafeon - Grass/Bug

(Becomes bug-like. Inspired by bugs who look like plants like mantises as an example)

Potential Ability: Wind Rider or Hyper Cutter

Mega Glaceon - Ice/Flying

Potential Ability: Snow Warning

(Windchill/Flurry, it’s Pokédex entries supports this so adding the flying type makes sense)

Mega Sylveon - Fairy/Dragon

(Living embodiment of fairytales and mythology).

Potential Ability: Competitive or Berserk

This actually balances out the types with the eeveelutions, though unfortunately there comes some flaws such as repetitive type combos (totallyyyyy have not seen a water/ground type before) or some pokémon gaining even more weakness as an example but that might work around with their stats combined with their new abilities.

I also don’t know how this would exactly work as that would require expanding on their traditionally-limiting movepools for their STAB moves for their secondary types (Vaporeon, Jolteon and Glaceon might be okay with the right hidden power). Another thing is balancing out their stats since a few of them are already well rounded when it comes to competitive play.

All in all, I think it would still be a unique concept to execute that no one would have expected and I think it suits them well.

Edit: My dumbass miscounted the types and forgot fighting somehow which unbalances this noooo 😭

Hope to god in the distant future they actually give us the Light type, hence maybe introducing the light eeveelution and it becomes Light/Fighting upon mega evolution and becomes a hero or something!

[chonkchu]

You know? I’ve never seen a pokémon other than Raichu that have such a super inconsistent colour palette… until I acknowledged this guy:

It’s one of those pokémon that have such a disappointing shiny colouration but honestly when it was first released in gen 4, there were some actual differences in the colours between the shiny and normal. They weren’t great but they weren’t as bad as Leafeon’s who on the otherhand is so fucking awful that my first ever shiny I got as a kid was an Eevee I hatched in BW2 and I chose to evolve it into Leafeon cause I didn’t have one. I thought it reverted to normal so I just stupidly abandoned it in the GTS and never understood why it was traded so quickly over some legendary idk. Sigh…

Anyway:

So as established, for some reason they choose to portray all glaceon and even the newer 3d models more lighter and less teal-ish like their shiny palette from the sprites? 😭

Even the models don’t fully reference either of them. It’s kinda confusing and not once has there been a confirmed shiny Glaceon in the anime. The only thing that stayed was the teal for it’s limbs/appendages and the quadrilateral markings.

[chonkchu]

So I mean ig it kinda looks like it’s Pokémon Yellow Version sprite when you acknowledge the cheeks…

But then you remember that this one specific sprite is from a carbon-copy of og Red/Blue except it has slight changes inspired from the anime and most importantly centres around Pikachu as your partner so you might as well pika-fy the evolved form that you cannot get in-game except through trading from the original games so you might as well take advantage of the colour limitations and redesign it… or do you? I find it interesting that Pikachu’s sprite isn’t as yellow in comparison considering that’s the game’s name and all. I’m no techie when it comes to colour limitations and how sprites work but maybe they just a wanted his cheeks to pop out more somehow? He’s got some yellow as shaders but not like Rairai.

Either way, I’m kinda surprised they didn’t take advantage of this back in the day and make Raichu retain the colours of Pikachu upon evolving for the anime back then since all of Pokémon Yellow’s sprites are more accurate to anime but not every pokémon’s colours are (looking at you green Rattata and blue Butterfree!). I mean there was a year gap between the anime and the following of Yellow’s creation… Must’ve been an afterthought or they really just didn’t want raichu in the spotlight for obvious reasons regarding to the mascot. Maybe they weren’t exactly sure what to do with Raichu besides it being a potential rival so they just gave it time usual darker colours to make it look more like it’s R/B/G counterpart and to allow Pikachu to look iconic (since it kinda looks like blush which = cute).

And with remembering that Pikachu’s first R/B/G sprites originally look like this (also heard his cheeks were supposed to be yellow too but they changed it):

There was some potential that they could’ve made both pokémon as mascots or one of them as iconic as Charizard at least. Probably had to maybe change around Ash Ketchum for this or give him an accompanying character or Gary (though he might not’ve helped with Raichu’s rep tho) have a partner Raichu and had a chance to make it as recognizable alongside. Pikachu here looks more Raichu-like with the white tummy, darker paws and the way its tail is narrowed at base and darkened. I mean it might look too much like a Raichu here obviously but it’s the similarities that I like. I don’t mind and completely understand the redesign he got for the anime as it does make it look more unevolved but you see what I’m saying.

But this unfortunately further validates the reason of why one of or both mega Raichu look the way they do cause I guess cause The Original Pikachu literally looks like a fusion of Raichu which is what the designs were trying to go for aside from merchandising bait that I’ve pointed out on a previous post. Genwunner bait I suppose? I liked it when megas had a logical, scientific explanations of their designs that relates to their pokédexes; not their origins from actual character designing if you get what I am saying. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as lots of games, movies or books reference old concept art and notes for building on a character’s appearance, personality and plot continuity, but it just doesn’t work for mega Raichu’s imo case because those sprites aren’t actually concept art; they were official but redesigned for simplicity, recognizability combined with better software. There’s a stark difference between all of R/B/G’s sprites compared to Yellow which in other words was made during the anime’s production and specifically for Pikachu’s rise in fame so everyone could be like Ash.

I’ve also wondered if this might be why Kantonian Raichu often looked “more yellow” for merchandise cause they think causal people will think it’s “Pikachu but bigger” which is essentially what they’re doing with it’s megas except with power. So in otherwords: 💸

Raichu Collection Image Credit by July from:

Welcome to my Pokemon Collection Site!

~ WELCOME ~

Bonus!: I wouldn’t count this but this Dedenne I snapped to my partner that I found at a Farmer’s Market plush shop. You had one jobbbb 😭:

[whyamistillonnetflix]

I hate what Nintendo is doing with Z-A. I play Pokemon for myself and maybe like 3 friends. I don't compete. I don't care about online play. I've never cared about online play. And their Home BS? I don't want to send Pokemon to a game to keep them there forever. That's the point to Home. I have a Talonflame that I've had longer than my decade long marriage. I was excited to send it to Z-A, but now? Hell no. Please tell me I'm not the only one upset about these decisions. I hate that I no longer want to get this game. I hate that Nintendo is alienating players like me. I just want my comfort games.

[chonkchu]

Honestly what first put me off was the fact that the whole game just completely takes place in Lumiose but as trailers continued on. I’ll admit I did get interested when they’ve implement what’s basically “Paris’ Catacombs” and a couple of the megas like Malamar and Delphox but also mainly the real-time concept of Pokémon battles sound crazy and hella fun af, but after seeing this shit continue on, its just a huge downfall. Like what op mentioned about transferring pokémon over, I and others are on the same boat! I have competitive pokémon that I’ve specifically bred and hyper trained, shiny hunted and some from my first-ever playthrough trophies I’ve owned since I was like 8 and I can’t port them back from that game if I transfer them??? Why? Are they making a new Home? What is the point? Like Legends Arceus is similar with a different playstyle and elimination of abilities and it didn’t have that problem? It just feels like a dick move. Now tbh Nintendo has been stupidly greedy with their choices lately but for Pokémon? You’re serious? You fuckers weren’t about to become bankrupt before, what’s with this paywall shit for a multi millionaire franchise? These pointless choices? Why do I need to pay online to get all the good stuff? I’m not even a huge gamer no more so the fact that I have to waste money for all this shit to actually enjoy it to its truest and fullest as a casual player is no fair! They’re literally throwing out an unfinished game and want you to pay for the rest. I think this is more than just capitalism at this point.

But like seriously? Who is actually making these fuckass decisions?

[chonkchu]

Bugs me that neither of these rats have their back stripes lightning-shaped either. Ofc they wouldn’t give that badass design choice to any form of raichu.

Although not even Gigantimax Pikachu gets it either surprisingly. The third stripe is interesting but sensible addition to the size change anyway.

Nit-picky detail you could say, but it makes sense right?

Also not a gripe but I find it kinda interesting that they made Raichu X’s paw pad design a mix between the two soles from the og anime and the official/game design:

[chonkchu]

If Raichu didn’t exist in gen 1 so Pikachu did not have an evolution at all and decades later they revealed it’s design as Pikachu’s mega evolution… Could you imagine how wild everyone would be over it?

Everyone would likely be glorifying it 😭

Raichu actually has such a great design, an AWESOME design at that coming from gen 1. But unfortunately in our universe it just gets disliked, not cute and “forgotten” until now apparently. It’s 2 megas are actually a joke and only exist to be merchandisable 💔

[chonkchu]

You know, Toothless actually HAD the chance of having his way of killing (or at least knocking off) Grimmel and avenging his species if he didn’t do a fucking war-cry roar after uncloaking while Grimmel was distracted in the actual scene:

Like you’re an intelligent dragon known for stealth by nature who just learned how to turn INVISIBLE for some plot armour reason. Why THE HELL would you do that at the most critical moment? Ik for a fact that this was Hiccup’s out of pocket, last resort idea to jump off and glide over, but still there was a GREAT opportunity to swoop in at Grimmel and throw him off or at least fire a plasma blast cause here he wasn’t expecting it and he wouldn’t be fast enough to successfully use the beluga as a meat shield. I find this ironic too cause there’s a whole small thing in the movie about the dragon riders trying to be stealthy on rescue missions and ironically the protagonist leader and his dragon who are actually good at that go against that. You could argue that Toothless was in the moment angry with everything, but he IS AWARE that he can’t do fuck all to Grimmel unless they get him off guard.

And on top of that (as this has been pointed out before), as THE GUY who allegedly “hunted every night fury to extinction almost”, he looks very shocked to see his Deathgrippers suddenly electrified and falling lifelessly from out the sky with the no-longer seized night fury not anywhere to be seen. Like of all the years, was that bro’s first time seeing that??? He should’ve expected that?